Casebooks

RN Rachell Marche {serv} of \wife of/ M^r Longfilds mā 3{illeg}|2| y. at the same tyme married 2 yeres /a swymming \in y^e hed./\

RN Eliz. Childs of Chalgrave 7 nyles {sic} wide frō Oxford 30 y Iuly 25. ☿ h. 4. 20 p m 1632. |gydyes {sic} in her head|

RN M^res Elisabeth Bevill of Milbroake. 37. sept. 7. 7. {sic} ☾ hor. 11. 45 ant m 1601

a rawe stomack a gydy head

RN Henry Coo of Great Horwood h. 2 Aug 12. ☉ hor 2. p m 1604 on for his hukkebone & swyming in his head

RN Agnys Richadson of newp 36 y octob 16 ♃ h. 10 30 ant m 1623 |head light|

RN Mres foukes of Wootton 38 y Sept 26 ☿ h. 11 ant m. 1627. |hed gydy|

RN soror Sandie vrinā hodie ostendit mihi pillul. velit accipere  capitis vertig: maij 7 ☿ h. 8. 30 ant m. 1606 / capit vertigi{n}{e}\

RN M^r Iohn Smith of Great brickhill sent me a letter Iune 29. ♃|♄| ♄ 5. 45 p m 1605. /itch more, hed gydye\

RN Th. Woodland of CastleAshbe 36 y May 23. ♂ h. 8 ant m. 1620 |sick a weeke hed light|

RN Agnys Bigh {sic} \Bigge/ /Bigge\ of Bleadloe 32 y Ian 28 ♀ h. 7 30 ant m 1631 |Aguish water red but thin| /mayed {sic}\

stitch vnder her syde head gydy & shaketh cānot hold still her head \on child 3 y/ very drye in her stomack & mouth.

RW Roger Neale of shelswell y. 38. d. ☉. ho 8. 26. ant: m Novemb: 7. 1619. taken vpon Fryday last with a giddyenesse in his head & with a prickinge in his head & face: something ready to stop his wind in his throate, vomiteth mutch all that hee taketh. RN |Squincy feard| RW

RN Iohn Holman of Newport 34. y. Iuly 13 die ☾ hor 6. ant m 160i¹

RN Goody Ashburnoure very sorely pained in her head light headed & swelled in her face very red. can take no sleepe nor rest. sent to me. may 4. die ♀. h. 5. 48. mi ant m 1599 hath not had her couses {sic} this two yeres. bledeth nowe & then at the nose.

RN Alce Whitebread. of Steppinglye 35 y Iuly 5 ☾ h. 4. 20 p m 1624. /a greevous cold taken in breeding a noice in her head head gydye\

RN M^r knight of Banbery 32 y feb. 1. ☿ h. 4. p m. 1632. head ill \light headed w^th a swyming/

RN An Goodrick of Lathbury 32. hed & neck pricking left side her hed was gyddye. shee had a child 9 month a goe troubled w^th a gydy hed. Novemb 2. die ♃. h. 3. 30.

RN The lady Spencer of Offley sept 16 ☉ h. 12. 45. p m 1627

\cānot sleepe hed light & gydy/ for her rheme & hed

for y^e lady spencer of Offley sept 16 1627

GJ Susan Langton of Molsho 34 y Octob 17. ☉ ho. 10. 50 a m. A lightnes and ringing in her head. a payne in her necke cannot sleepe./

M^r. Rous Clopton of Corp. Chri Coll. Oxon 35. y. Mart. 17. ☿. h. 9. p. m. 1630

A greiuous Headache takes him at Midnight sometimes in one te of y^e head & sometimes in y^e other te, but especially in y^e left side of his heade, w^ch makes y^e places outwardly sore where y^e paine hath beene.¹

A continually Noyse in his head w^th a tearinge paine as yf it would pull one skyn from another, w^ch comes sometimes suddenly like a strech, & then is gone in an instant

A dizines in y^e heade & a leapinge, as it were of blacke mothes before his Eyes

This paine hath continued these 6 weekes,

Desires to knowe whether it ceeds from y^e stomack or spleene, from a cold or{illeg} hote cause

Hath beene let Bloud in y^e right arme, & vnder the tongue, & in y^e forehead, beeinge tolde by the Physitian y^this greife was caused by fullnes of Bloud

Hath taken Pills & Electuaryes sundry times, but his paine noethinge deminished

Hath for many years beene troubled w^th a soundinge & noyse in his head, but neuer w^th paine till nowe Feareth a Disposition to the Palsye or Apoplexye Desires Receits & Directions to preuent these two capitall Dangers.

RN Mathewe Windmill 30 yeres of age sick this two yeres in liver & milt & hart well by day working but ill always every night lieth hevy hevy {sic} in his chest y^t he cannot sleepe nor tak his rest agaynst weath^r and when he eateth flesh & porrage it heaveth vp his chest. vp from his chest to his harte. it lieth in his the pit of his stomack as if his hart & milte were broken as he him selfe thincketh it payneth him intolerable very cold never better thē when he is working cōplyneth most of chest & harte Novemb. 12 die ☉ at h. 7. 50. mi. 1598. at the first cōming he had a flushing in his hed w^t a gydines but never since